Electric-display control.



F. O. REILLY.

ELECTRIC DISPLAY CONTROL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY}, 1913 Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

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ATTORNEY F. G. REILLY. ELECTRIC DISPLAY common v APPLICATION lILED MAY1, 1913. L1 1 9,37 1 Patented Dec. 914.

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v 1 ,119,371 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D 1 1914'.Application filed Kay 1, 1915. as. No. 104,734.

T all whom it ma concern; are shown in the full lines for the urpose Beit known that I, FRANK C. REILLY, a of clearness. b, is a superimposedboard citizen of the United States, residin at Dewhich likewise carriesa plurality of elec- I troit,.county of Wayne, State of hgchigan, triclights rectangular] arranged to form so have invented a certain new anduseful Imthe studded field. This oard Will be termed provement inElectric-Display Controls, and h S cond field of electric lights and itis declare the followin to be a full, clear, and upon this field thatthe stationary signs, figexact description of the same, such as willures, representations or borders are flashed. enable others skilled inthe art to which it It will of course be understood that it is not 05pertains to make and use the same, reference absolutely necessary thatthe illuminary efbeing bad to the accompanying drawings, fects bestationary during the period in which form a art of this specification.Which they remain upon the board, for this This invention relates tomoving electric fie d m ght be d ted o b01 16! Which signs andespecially to that form of moving has a changing effect as is quitecommon 7 electric si s that known as a motograph With borders inelectric illumination. It} and whic is described in Patent No. will alsobe understood that the shape of, 1,050,203, i su d t E. H. Bickley,tlnssecond field may be varied to accord he present invention is animprovement I h the effects desired. upon the invention described insaid patent The lights on the motograph board a are 7,; and involves theidea of automatically conch ne onnected with terminals 0 upon trolling aflash sign in connection with he r sh block d- These terminals, as dethe moving lite al display upon th motoscribed in the aforementionedpatent, are graph board. The motograph comprises aparranged in the sameway as the bulbs are paratus for moving a perforated insulating arrangedon the motograph display boardso ribbon across a field'of electricterminals to T re passes between the two parts of the produce movingletters that travel from brush block d, a switching strip 6 which isright to left upon a display-board. It 00- constructed of insulatingmaterial such as ours to the'applicant that it would be very perforatedtough paper. This strip is desirable to be able to dis layflash or temlt as shown in the drawings and these porary tationary sig s,- gures orborders s'lotsrepresent the representation or si with the reading matterthat is moved across that it is dcsiredto throw upon the display themotograph display board; for instance, board, for Instance, the wor Meatis Obs where the motcgraph is used by a'number of served on theinsulating stri c. It will, advertisers, it would be .quite desirable toalso, be seen that the word eat is just ter was, at a given time,appearing on the As the stu travelsacross the brush block, motographdisplay-board constantl before the word eat Wlll travel across thediethe. observer during such period. 0 effect play board. This travelingaction is ap this and carry out this idea, I have designed parent by theappearance of the letters the apparatus hereinafter described. esh whichare a portion of the word In the drawin :Figure 1, is a diagram- Freshwhich is, just disappearing off matic view of t e apparatus. Fig. 2, isa the board at the left. j vertical section of the switching mechanismIntermediate control devices might be inor control which is shownsomewhat dia terposed between the motograph display grammatically. Fig.3, is an enlarged frag- .board andthe terminals so that thearrangementary view of. the switching mechanism ment of the terminalswould not 'ust coror control, showing diagrammatically the respond withthe arrangement of t c lights operation of the brushes, and differingfrom on the board. I wish it understood that the switching mechanism inFig. 1 in havmy invention could be appllied to almost ing only one brushto help operate the staany kind of switching mec anism for optionarysign. crating the board on which the moving a, indicatesthe motographdis lay board illuminary effects are, produced. At one 4 which com risesa rectangular fie d studded side of the switching strip a I arrange withcqua ly s aced electric light bulbs. two rows of perforations f. A pairof These are not s own in such arran ement brushes or terminals h arelocated on for the reason that only the illumine bulbs the brush block'so that tie perforations crank armature dily will pass under them andelectrically close the circuit through the wire g. T employ the twoterminals 9 so as to insure the closure by this double precaution,although one is all that is necessary and only one is shown in Fig. 3.terminals is traced. through the wire g about the magnet 5 through thewire y tothe return wire It. When the slots 7' come under the brushesit, one circuit is established, the magnet energized and this attracts abell- Z, which moves the pawlcarrying arm m, forcing the'pawl n to drivethe ratchet wheel 0 one notch. This ratchet wheel operates a controlcontained in the control box p. This control is not illustrated as thereare a number of control or switches for bringing onto an electricdisplay board a different combination of letters or differentrepresentations. This is part of the prior art. It suflices to say thatmy invention consists of operating such switching control to bring on anew sign or representation for the second display board. This operationis performed automatically and synchronously with the change of thesubject matter on the motograph.

A cable 1* leads from the switching box 79 of the display board to thesecond display board 6 and it will be understood that, in the familiarway, the wires lead from each of the lights of the display board I) toterminals in the switching box p. L return conductor s leads from theboard I). A return wire 70 leads from the motograph board while the feedconductor t leads to the motograph switch board d to furnish current forthe individual circuits that run through the cable to the motographboard and also for the circuit that controls the magnet 71. A branchfeed wire as furnishes current for the individual circuits that leadthrough the cable 9' to the second display board b.

The switching ribbon. e passes over the rollers 'v and y, the latter ofwhich is driven by a belt '5, into the storage box to. lit will beunderstood that almost any form of control for be second display boardcan be used without avoiding the principle of my invention.

What T claim is ii. In an electric sign control, the combi- The circuitfrom these nation of a display board provided with rows of electriclights arranged in a compact field and a second display board providedwith electric lights arranged to be capable of different arrangements inillumination, of a field of contacts connected with the first-mentioneddisplay board, a control strip bearing means which travel across thefield of contacts for producing illuminary effects traveling from sideto side across the first-mentioned display board, and means operated inconjunction with said strip for producing temporarily stationary effectsupon the second display board, the said last mentioned means cooperatingwith the control strip and contacts to produce certain temporarystationary efi'ects at times when they will have significant relationwith the particular illuminary effects at that time traveling across thefirst display board, substantially as described.

2. In an electric sign control, the combination with a display boardprovided with rows of electric lights arranged in a compact field and asecond display board provided with electric lights arranged to becapable of difier'ent arrangements in illumination, of a field ofcontacts connected with the first-mentioned display board. a controlstrip provided with characters which. passing across the contacts,produce similar illuminary characters traveling from side to side acrossthe first-mentioned board, the said strip being provided with means formaking and breaking a circuit. and means for producing different flashilluminations upon the second display board, the said lastmentionedmeans being operated by the means on the strip that makes the circuit,the said means for establishing the circuitbeing located on the strip ina relation to the characters on the strip to bring aflash illuminationupon thesecond board which will have a significant relation with respectto the illuminary characters at that time appearing on the first displayboard, substantially as described.

Tn testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

' FRANK C. REILLY. Witnesses:

Swan-r Ciliauxns, Vmernm C. Smart.

